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Zombie Nirvana, with a nice gallery, some good tutorials, and plans to write a book "Fantasy Cartography using Photoshop)": http://www.zombienirvana.com/

-Rob A>

Just thought I would mention, that the ZombieNirvana site has not been updated in close to two years, and somewhere in his postings Butch Curry says he abandoned the idea of doing his book. The video tutorials are still there, though, as well as on their own YouTube channel.

If anyone is interested in these tutorials, I'm adapting them to GIMP here. When I'm finished, I'll probably rename it and update it with other GIMP techniques I've discovered through this site.

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